A new beginning.

I have decided that 2011 is going to be a year of new beginnings for me. First thing I am going to do to achieve that is I am signing up for my very first 5k walk/run. The run isn't until March, but starting tomorrow, I will be training. It's a tough training schedule, and it's going to take a lot of work..but I'm ready to do this for me! I still want to have gastric bypass, but I know that I have to get my diabetes under control first. So I am also trying to concentrate on me more..which I find hard. I am the type of person to help and do anything for others..and never do anything for me. I'm not saying that I am never going to do things for others. That is something I do get personal satisfaction from. I really don't know what other new things are in store for me this year. I am just looking forward to everything (except deployment.ha) that 2011 has to offer me!

Update on us.

Well yet again I find myself neglecting my blog. It has been several months since my last post. We have survived a ton of underways, Sara's birthday and the holidays. We are now on the official countdown to deployment. It's creeping up on us way faster then I want it to but that is how it usually happens..or so I'm told. I thought I had everything figured out as far as how Sara and I were going to spend this deployment and now everything has changed. We were going to let Sara finish school and then head to Oregon in June, spend the summer there and then come back to Florida for Sara to start back to school the end of August and wait for Steven to return home sometime in September or October. Now we are going to try go to Oregon for Christmas after Steven returns from deployment. We can't afford to do both and I don't think it is fair for Sara and I to be able to go and visit and not Steven. I know there will be times that, that will happen and that is fine, but if we can hold off and go as a family then that would be fair.

As for what for sure will be happening while Steven is away, I will be losing weight. Sara and I will be getting out of the house more. And because Steven will most likely be gone for Sara's 9th birthday I would like to make it one that she won't forget, her daddy is her world so not having him at her party is making it all that much harder. Ok have to stop talking about that awful D word...lol